IXL Learning Software Engineer interview experience

The onsite included multiple rounds where I felt generally prepared, but the last stages got increasingly odd: one of the coding rounds was on the upper end of a LeetCode medium, while another question was something I hadn’t seen before—very convoluted and seemingly designed to be solved with almost no help from the interviewer. When I didn’t finish, they let me keep going later that day and submit.

What made the experience especially frustrating was the lack of a clear sense of why I didn’t get the offer even though I believed I nailed most of what I was asked. I also had a separate